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2005-06: Phillips spent the majority of the year playing for the USA U-17 squad. Appearing in 38 games, Phillips posted a record of 21-14-3 with a goals against average of 2.39 and a save percentage of .922. He also recorded one shutout. He played all but one game at the 2006 World U-17 Hockey Challenge where he led Team USA to a silver medal. He was named the tournament's top goaltender. Phillips also appeared in one game with the U-18 squad. He allowed two goals as he picked up the win.

2006-07: Phillips split the season in nets with Josh Unice. In 24 games, Phillips posted a record of 15-5-0-2 with a goals against average of 2.33 and a save percentage of .913. He also had two shutouts. Eleven of his 24 games came against NCAA opponents. Phillips posted a winning record in these games, finishing with a record of 5-4-1 with a goals against average of 3.18 and a save percentage of .886. NHL Central Scouting ranked Phillips as the ninth best NA goalie heading into the 2007 NHL Entry Draft.2007-08: Phillips saw action in five games with the University of Notre Dame. He spent the season backing up Jordan Pearce in goal, and along with junior Tom O’Brien, he gave the Irish one of the top goaltending trios in the country. He went 4-1-0 on the season with a 1.53 goals against average and a .923 save percentage. He recorded one shutout on the season. He made his collegiate debut on Nov. 2 in a 4-1 win over Lake Superior, making 16 saves in the game. His first career shutout came in his third career start, as he made 24 saves in a 7-0 win at Princeton on Dec. 8. He is one of seven former USNTDP alums on the Notre Dame roster along with Pearce, junior Kyle Lawson, fellow sophomores Ian Cole and Teddy Ruth and freshmen Patrick Gaul and Sean Lorenz.

2008-09: Phillips missed the entire season due to a knee injury.

2009-10: Phillips appeared in 10 games as a junior as a back-up to Notre Dame starter Mike Johnson as the Fighting Irish finished ninth in the 12-team CCHA. Phillips was 2-3-3 with 1 shutout and had a 2.47 GAA and .911 save percentage.

2010-11: Phillips played for the Bloomington Prairie Thunder in the CHL, foregoing his senior year at Notre Dame. He appeared in 30 games as a backup to veteran Marco Emond and was 12-7-5 with a 2.38 GAA and .914 save percentage. The Prairie Thunder finished third in the Turner Division and Phillips appeared in three playoff games and was 0-2 with a 3.08 GAA and .894 save percentage.

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What are the greatest accomplishments of the Rick Dudley era?What are the biggest failings?

CHAD – DudleyDudley gave more attention to scouting inthree years than has been done for the Lightning in the previous seven.He drafted 4 goaltenders in 3 drafts (Konstantinov, Eklund, Polukeyev, Lanicek).In the previous 7, only 3 goaltenders hadbeen drafted (Tyler Moss, DerekWilkinson, ZacBierk).He alsowent in with an agenda, drafting first for size and speed and paying closeattention to the European style of player development.Murdoch seemed to draft with adartboard.Dudleyspoke favorably about the European way of developing players — concentratingon practices, rather than the North American way on concentrating ongames.He gave the draft and prosp Read more»

The CHL Player of the Week for the week ending Feb. 10, 2002 is goaltenderJean-Francois Racine of the Drummondville Voltigeurs of the Quebec MajorJunior Hockey League.

Racine turned in brilliant performances in two games this week, allowingjust one goal while stopping 65 of the 66 shots he faced for a savepercentage of .985 as Drummondville won both of its games this past week.His goals against average for the week was 0.50.

On Friday, Racine made 30 saves as the Voltigeurs edged the Rimouski Oceanic4-1. Then on Sunday he posted the seventh shutout of his career, stoppingall 35 shots he faced, as Drummondville edged the Baie-Comeau Drakkar 1-0.

Racine was also selected as the QMJHL Defensive Player of the Week. He takesthe CHL Player of the Week honours over the other league nominees, includingPhilippe Lacasse of the Hull Olympiques, the QMJHL Offensive Player of theWeek, Jason Spezza of the Belleville Bulls, the OHL’s Player of the Week andJoffrey Lupul of the Medicine Hat Tigers, the Husky WHL Player of the Week.

The CHL Player of the Week is selected from among the three leagues’nominees and announced in Tuesday’s editions of the CHL Daily News. The CHLPlayer of the Month for January will be announced in Wednesday’s CHL DailyNews.

WESTERN HOCKEY LEAGUE

There are three games in the WHL on Tuesday night. Kootenay is at Kelowna,Portland plays at Medicine Hat and Vancouver is in Moose Jaw.

The top European Under-16 teams faced each other for the first time at the Four Nationstournament played in the Czech Republic between February, 7th and February, 9th, 2002 inPrague. The Czechs were off star prospects Jakub Sindel and Ladislav Smid, both of themalready competing with the Under-17 team, but left a very solid impression. They finishedat the third place overall, but the results were close and they had a chance on a betterplacement. So let’s check out the recaps of the games!

Czech Republic – Finland 0:4

It took only eight seconds from the opening faceoff before the Czech goalie Radek Fiala sawthe red light lit behind his net. 2004 top Finnish prospect Lauri Tukonen got the puckin the Czech zone, shuffled it a bit before improving his shooting position and then liftedit over Fiala from close. The Czech goalie couldn’t do anything against it, he was lying onthe ice to prevent Tukonen to score near the left goalpost and Tukonen lifted the puck rightunder the crossbar. Read more»

Jan Alston has had a 3-game loan spell with ZSC Lions’ farm team GCK Lions in which he scored 3 goals and 2 assists for 5 points.

1988 5th rnd Pittsburgh Penguins‘ draft pick Greg Andrusak, who also saw NHL time with the Maple Leafs, signed a contract with HC Lugano after his contract with German team Berlin Capitals was dissolved. In 39 games in Berlin he managed 22 points. In the latter part of the Swiss regular season Andrusak played 8 games notching 4 assists, gearing up for the playoffs.

Another former Penguins draft pick enterred the Swiss league. Oleg Belov, drafted in the 4th round in 1995, signed a contract with Rapperswil-Jona close to the end of the regular season. Belov, who only has played IHL in North-America, was playing in Sweden with HV’71 the past three seasons and does return to Switzerland after having had a previous spell with EHC Chur in the 96-97 season. In 7 games Belov assisted on three goals while not being able to find the net.

Undrafted Rob Cowie who saw NHL ice time with the Los Angeles Kings between ’94 and ’96 returned to Switzerland after he started his European career at La Chaux de Fonds. Cowie will play for EV Zug during the upcoming playoffs. He came from Finnish giants Jokerit Helsinki and played several seasons in the German league before his stay in Finland.

It is widely rumoured Christian Dubé, one of the brightest stars in Swiss hockey at the moment, is leaving HC Lugano next season as his contract will run out. Front runner for his signature is SC Bern.

Hainsey managed 3 assists through 4 games since our last update. He was shutout during Sunday’s game against Hamilton, thereby ending a 4-game point-scoring streak. Overall, the 6’3″, 200-lbs defenseman has played 40 games. He has 24 points (7-17-24), and is +10 with 12 minutes in penalties. Four of his goals were scored on the powerplay, and he’s directed 87 shots on goal.

Mathieu Garon -G (Drafted-96(2/44))

Garon recorded a 2-0-1 record through 3 games since our last update. The 24-year-old backed up Vadim Tarasov during a February 9th game against Manchester, thereby ending a string of 26 straight starts. Overall, the 6’2″, 192-lbs goalie has played 34 AHL games. He has a 17-8-8 record with 2.73 GAA, and a .917 save percentage.

Eric Chouinard -F (Drafted-98(1/16))

Chouinard picked up 1 assist through 4 games since our last update. He hasn’t been seeing as much ice-time with Craig Darby, which has hurt Chouinard’s production. Overall, the 6’3″, 207-lbs left winger has played 43 games. He has 33 points (13-20-33), and is -3 with 12 minutes in penalties. Surprisingly, he has only one powerplay goal; which actually speaks volumes for Chouinard’s 5-on-5 play this season. He’s also directed 121 shots on goal.

Francois Beauchemin -D (Drafted-98(3/75))

Beauchemin returned to action in time to score 1 goal through 3 games this week. His goal came during a 3-2 win over Philadelphia. Overall, the 6’0″, 201-lbs defenseman has played 31 games. He has 8 points (5-3-8), and Read more»